Pedro Peris-Lopez has a M.Sc. in Telecommunications Engineering (2004) and Ph.D. in Computer Science (2008) from the University Carlos III of Madrid.

From October 2004 to December 2008 he hold a position as Assistant Teacher at University Carlos III of Madrid (Spain), being involved both in academic and research tasks. In January 2009, he started to work as Postdoctoral Research at Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands). In Delft he was mainly focused on research but he had the opportunity to serve as Invited Lecturer in the subject of Cryptography and Security at the Master of Computer Science and also as Field Supervisor of a PhD candidate from the Universiti Sains Malaysia (Malaysia). Moreover he enrolled in several training courses (“University Teaching Qualification”) pursuing to increase his teaching skills. In September 2011 he started to work as a Visiting Lecturer at the University Carlos III of Madrid.

Regarding international mobility, he worked three years (January 2009 to January 2012) as Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Delft. Moreover in June 2011 he was invited for a short stay in the Ecole Federale of Lausanne (EPFL) in the programme called “Summer Research Institute”. As consequence of his international reputation, he has been invited as speaker in Universities (e.g., Radboud University Nijmegen, K. U. Leuven, Portsmouth University, EPFL, etc) and Research Centres (e.g. I2R Singapore). Furthermore he has acted as part of the assessment panel in National and International PhD defences.

He has published many articles in International Journals with impact factor and papers in International Conferences of recognized prestige (peer- reviewed; 2-4 reviewers). His works have a high impact: the whole of his works have more than 1500 cites and his h-index is 17 (08/2014 – Google Scholar). His research interest are in the field of cryptography, computer forensics, signal processing, and artificial intelligence. Nowadays, his research is focused on three main areas in which he has published a great number of papers in specialized journals and conference proceedings. Some of his most relevant works in each of these fields are listed below: